Reply #36: Hi, pnwmom. While on one hand I won't speak for the Cardinal, I do

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question why sexual issues predominate the Church's condemnation of women generally and many others as well, as opposed to the absence of the same ferocity directed against the war.

Poster CBHagman is right to insist that many in the Catholic heirarchy did their best to dissuade Dubya from warmongering, but of course, Dubya and Dick and Don and Condi had already made up their minds, such as they are.

So point taken that the effort was made, that it was strenous, and that it was genuine. But the Church's oppositional stance to a woman's right to choose, or for a women to be ordained, or for lesbian and gay people to love each other, is disproportionate and dangerously so.